Wectar - Arts - Crafts - Textiles

Subcategories
Artists	Braiding	Dyeing	Handspinning	Lacemaking@	Macrame
Museums@	Weaving


Page		1	2	3

	Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum URL: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ ODP description: The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Page title: Home \| Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Page description: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible. The Museum celebrates the nature of design and explores its impact on the quality of our lives.
	Interweave Press, LLC URL: http://www.interweave.com/ ODP description: USA. Publishers of magazines and books about natural fibers and threads, needlework and beads. Directory of events. Page title: Interweave Press
	All Fiber Arts URL: http://www.allfiberarts.com/ ODP description: Informational site for weaving, spinning and other fiber arts. Articles, forum. Page description: All Fiber Arts, the new site for Weaving & Spinning (formerly Weaving/Spinning at About.com
	Spinners', Weavers' & Knitters' Housecleaning Pages URL: http://www.kbbspin.org/ ODP description: Provides a forum and free marketplace. Page title: kbbspin.org \| Everything fit to find or sell in the world of wool
	John C. Campbell Folk School URL: http://www.folkschool.org/ ODP description: Promotes performing arts, agriculture and crafts rooted in the traditions of Southern Appalachia and other cultures of the world. Course listings, schedule of concerts and dance events, Elderhostel information, driving directions, craft shop hours, and other information.
	FiberLink URL: http://www.fibergypsy.com/ ODP description: Information and resources for knitters, spinsters, weavers, and other fiber artists. Page title: FiberLink (Top Page) Page description: FiberLink: Connecting Fiber Enthusiasts with the Web and Each Other. Information and resources for knitters, spinsters, weavers, and other fiber artists.
	Rug Hooking Online URL: http://www.rughookingonline.com/ ODP description: Features how-to articles and patterns, a gallery of full-color rugs, and links to related sites. Page description: Rug Hooking Magazine's website features how-to articles and patterns, a gallery of full-color rugs, and links to related sites.
	TextileLinks URL: http://www.textilelinks.com/ ODP description: A compilation of textile-related words, phrases and links to other sites, by Rosemary Brock. Page title: TextileLinks - Articles and links on textiles & fiber arts: spinning, weaving, quilting, felting, knitting, sewing, and dyeing; covering supplies, organizations, museums, events, training, etc.
	Textile Center of Minnesota URL: http://www.textilecentermn.org/ ODP description: A coalition of the textile community, dedicated to promoting and preserving textile excellence. Page description: A National Center for Fiber Art
	Phiala's String Page URL: http://www.stringpage.com/ ODP description: Information on a wide variety of techniques including braiding, tablet weaving, sprang and naalbinding. Page description: Textile resources for medieval and modern tablet weaving, sprang, naalbinding, braiding.
	Mexican Textiles URL: http://www.mexicantextiles.com/ ODP description: Dedicated to the presentation of indigenous costume, the people, their location and their traditions. Page title: Mexican Indian / Indigenous Textiles and clothing - A vanishing tradition of indigenous dress, clothing and costume presented as an on line museum. Traditional costumes and dress includes embroidered blouses, wrap skirt, huipils, back strap woven belts, quechquemitls, rebozos know in Mexico as ropa tipica. Textile patterns from MexicoÃ¢â¬â¢s rich ethnic culture and village life is presented along with a museum store.
	Descendants of the Incas URL: http://www.incas.org/ ODP description: By the Center For Traditional Textiles of Cusco, Peru, promoting Inca weaving traditions. Contains images and stories, and descriptions of spinning, dyeing and weaving processes used. Page title: Descendants of the Incas: Inca weaving traditions and family ties. Page description: A culture of people living today near the city of Cuzco, Peru. It was the capital of the Inca empire and is close to Machu Picchu. The site will help preserve and celebrate the textiles of the Andes and assist their weavers. The art of weaving is important to modern Inca families as it was to their ancestors. Every traditional family in Peru contains at least one weaver.
	The Textile Society URL: http://www.textilesociety.org.uk/ ODP description: UK. Registered charity for scholars, designers, teachers, practitioners, artists and collectors with an interest in the study of textile art, design and history in the UK. Calendar of events. Links to textile resources and related sites. Page title: Welcome to the Textile Society Page description: Click to view textile
	TAFTA URL: http://www.ggcreations.com.au/tafta/ ODP description: The Australian Forum for Textile Arts is a group who put together publications, conferences and workshops to give advice to textile craftspeople. Page title: TAFTA - The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
	Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Sprang URL: http://www.regia.org/sprang.htm ODP description: The history, origins, construction and use of thread twisting.
	Ron's Fiber Home URL: http://hem.bredband.net/ronpar/ ODP description: Offers links of resources for fiber artists. Page description: serving the fiber arts and crafts community
	African Crafts Online URL: http://www.africancrafts.com/ ODP description: African Crafts Online's goal is to sustain the rich cultural heritage of Africa expressed through the work of rural artisans by educating potential customers. Page title: AfricanCraft.com: African art, craftspeople, artists, shops, books, educational materials ... Page description: Dedicated to bringing the arts and the artisans of Africa online. Craftspeople, product designers and shops. Artisan web pages, retailers offering a wide selection of traditional and contemporary artifacts, arts and clothing.
	T.L.D. Design Center & Gallery URL: http://www.tlddesigns.com/ ODP description: Includes exhibit photos from gallery, class brochure, products, patterns and kits. Page title: TLD Design Center & Gallery. Creative Art Center & Gallery in Westmont, IL (Illinois)a Chicago Suburb. Artist owned and operated by Tammy L. Deck d/b/a TLD Designs. We carry yarn for weaving & knitting, looms & equipment, glass & supplies for lampworking and fusing,crochet patterns, classes, art,tld designs, education, girl scout activities, fibers, crafts, lampwork glass bead making classes and supplies chicago Illinois (IL), Flame Work, fabulous felt hats with chad alice hagen, Tammy taught felting skills during the first Midwest Felting Symposium in July 2006, dichroic glass fusing Classes and Supplies, Dichroic Glass, spinning, wet felt making and more, fabulous felt hats chad alice hagen,fabulous felt hats chad alice hagen, pmc classes with Hattie Sanderson,see Tammy Deck's Free Hand Felt Lace in Altered Couture,tld designs is Tammy's private label, Tammy of TLD Design Center & Gallery taught felting (nuno) and free hand felt lace workshops during the first Midwest Felting Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin Page description: An art gallery and Art education facility in Westmont, IL (a Chicago Suburb) where you can find: Weaving, Knitting, Crochet, Spinning, Felt Making including Nuno Felt Techniques, Yarn, Looms, classes in art and design, activities for Girl Scouts, Lampwork Glass Bead making classes and workshops, Classes, Classes in various fiber arts, crafts, Lampwork / Torchwork / Flamework Glass Bead Making, Silver Smith Jewelry Design Classes and supplie...
	Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins URL: http://www.shuttlesspindlesandskeins.com/ ODP description: Focus on classes and workshops. List of yarns offered. Page title: Welcome to Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins
	Birgitte Krag Hansen URL: http://www.feltmaking.com/ ODP description: Information about feltmaking, felt courses and exhibitions. Includes picture gallery. Page title: Birgitte Krag Hansen - Feltmaking.com - Home Page description: The doll of April month is a floating being that is ment just to touch the ground with her toes. Here she is dancing in the light of the early spring that is the most beautiful time of the year in Denmark. She is moving like a ballet dancer and therefore she has a nylon string in the top of her head that can be fastened where she is going to hang, so she will move or turn a little when there is a movement in the room., Felt education + visi...